> This isn't the case here. I find your view interesting for further clarification somehow. > Instead of making the code more readable, we're making it more convoluted. Can the shown software refactoring usually help here? > It's just that two out of three error messages happened to be the same This is true. > and Markus wants to save a bit of memory by using the same string. And also the same executable code (besides an identical error message). > The memory savings is not so big that it's worth making the code less readable. How does such a feedback fit to information for the deletion of questionable messages at other source code places? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html